Woman freed from car after four-vehicle crash on M65 (From Blackburn Citizen)

Were the road lights on?

the safe motorway??were theres NEVER any crashes some clown said!?!?no road is safe,and certainly not in the dark,no matter how good a driver you are..dont compromise safety EVER..

RAyzer wrote:
the safe motorway??were theres NEVER any crashes some clown said!?!?no road is safe,and certainly not in the dark,no matter how good a driver you are..dont compromise safety EVER..

Who said it was dark?

Some roads dont have lighting and never will. If there are no lights you adjust your driving accordingly. There is no such thing as a dangerous road only dangerous or careless drivers.

I can't agree with the above comments. This stretch of the M65 is dangerous. It's been badly designed with an excess of three lanes changing to 2 and vice versa, often near slip roads and exits. Another factor is that that junction 5 has not been upgraded, even though traffic has increased since the Royal Blackburn expansion. At peak times traffic is quing on the inside lane with the inevitable consequences.

I'm not trying to take away the driver factor butthis sort of incident will continue to happen unlees the road/junctions are upgraded.

I hope the lady recovers

A Darener wrote:
Were the road lights on?

The story says it was 8:30am so plenty of light. I wonder how much of a factor the humid days and nights are having on road saftey. Everyone is wearied, especially those without Aircon in their car. I've been stuck in 4 motorway accidents in the last 7 days.

ChiRho wrote:

RAyzer wrote: the safe motorway??were theres NEVER any crashes some clown said!?!?no road is safe,and certainly not in the dark,no matter how good a driver you are..dont compromise safety EVER..

Who said it was dark? Some roads dont have lighting and never will. If there are no lights you adjust your driving accordingly. There is no such thing as a dangerous road only dangerous or careless drivers.

clown--so every crash is down to careless driving???muppet,som
e one else may crash into you..fogs and bad weather cant be helped..get a car youl find out..idiot

Slimplynth wrote:

A Darener wrote: Were the road lights on?

The story says it was 8:30am so plenty of light. I wonder how much of a factor the humid days and nights are having on road saftey. Everyone is wearied, especially those without Aircon in their car. I've been stuck in 4 motorway accidents in the last 7 days.

I was being ironic.
Crashes are down to bad drivers not whether it is dark or not.

NICEONESUNSHINE wrote:
I can't agree with the above comments. This stretch of the M65 is dangerous. It's been badly designed with an excess of three lanes changing to 2 and vice versa, often near slip roads and exits. Another factor is that that junction 5 has not been upgraded, even though traffic has increased since the Royal Blackburn expansion. At peak times traffic is quing on the inside lane with the inevitable consequences. I'm not trying to take away the driver factor butthis sort of incident will continue to happen unlees the road/junctions are upgraded. I hope the lady recovers

I agree wholeheartedly with NICEONESUNSHINE. I travel this stretch nearly every day and the uphill approach to Junction 4 is treacherous. Idiots regularly "race" up the 3 lane hill and leave it to the very last moment to pull in when it changes to 2 lanes which often results in vehicles having to brake heavily because the brow of this hill is blind. On the other side the idiot driver often finds vehicles moving slower in the 2 lanes because they are slowing down to cross over to turn off at J4. The design of this motorway needs a serious rethink.

i work on motorways,and all roads are dangerous,nothing to do with driving/drivers theres a million reason for crashes..day or night

RAyzer wrote:
i work on motorways,and all roads are dangerous,nothing to do with driving/drivers theres a million reason for crashes..day or night

Are you a traffic cone?

RAyzer wrote:

ChiRho wrote:

RAyzer wrote: the safe motorway??were theres NEVER any crashes some clown said!?!?no road is safe,and certainly not in the dark,no matter how good a driver you are..dont compromise safety EVER..

Who said it was dark? Some roads dont have lighting and never will. If there are no lights you adjust your driving accordingly. There is no such thing as a dangerous road only dangerous or careless drivers.

clown--so every crash is down to careless driving???muppet,som

e one else may crash into you..fogs and bad weather cant be helped..get a car youl find out..idiot

Very good, lets resort to petty childish insults. Great way to demonstrate your lack of intelligence...

Everyone, and I mean everyone (except you of course), knows you adjust your driving to the conditions, fog, dark, rain, whatever. Roads dont cause accidents. Idiot drivers and drivers not taking proper care do.

Very few accidents are just that - accidents - most have a root cause due to a driver doing something wrong.

Well said ChiRho. You can adjust your driving to any conditions if you really want to. Most accidents are not accidents hence the reason for the Police changing the wording from RTA (Road Traffic Accident) to RTC (Road Traffic Collision). The change was to reflect that the majority of so called road accidents are mostly blameworthy. They don`t just happen for no reason.